• First appointed to The University of Iowa as Assistant Professor -- August, 1972
• Promoted to Associate Professor at The University of Iowa -- August, 1977
• Promoted to Professor at The University of Iowa -- August, 1983

Education:

Special Recognition:

Academic and Professional Experience:

Grants and Funding:

• Operant conditioning and autoshaping: Graduate College Research Grant, University of Iowa, 1972-1973
• Excitation, inhibition, and autoshaping: NIMH Grant, 1974-1975
• Autoshaping and the operant-respondent distinction: NSF Grant, 1976-1977
• The form and direction of autoshaped behaviors: NSF Grant, 1977-1981
• Cognition and causation: University House Interdisciplinary Research Grant, 1987 (with E. Fales)
• The role of Alzheimer’s disease in the genesis of "helplessness" depression: Committee on Aging Grant,1987-1988 (with M. W. O’Hara)
• An animal model of fetal alcohol syndrome: Interdisciplinary Research Program: University of Iowa, 1990-91 (with J. R. West)
• Perceptual bases of visual concepts in pigeons: NIMH Grant, 1991-2003 (with I. Biederman, USC)
• Determinants of nonsimilarity-based categorization: NIMH Grant, 1994-1999 (with S. L. Astley, Cornell College)
• The natural science of mind: Van Allen Natural Sciences Fellowship, University of Iowa, 1994-1995
• Causal discounting: Laws and mechanisms: Central Investment Fund for Research Enhancement, University of Iowa, 1995
• Communication, consciousness, and comparative cognition: Obermann Center for Advanced Studies Interdisciplinary Research Grant, University of Iowa, 1997 (with J. Ringen)
• Entropy and same-different conceptualization: NSF Grant, 1999-2003 (with M. Young)
• Same-different conceptualization by baboons: Human Frontier Science Program, 2000 (with J. Fagot)

Professional Service:

• Associate Editor: Learning and Motivation (1982-2000 )

Board of Editors:

• Animal Learning & Behavior (1998- )
• Behaviorism (1985-1989)
• Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior (1978-1981; 1996-1999; 2001-2003)
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes (1985-2003 )
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (2002-2005)
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (1993-1995)

Corresponding Associate Commentator:

• Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1978- )

Journal Reviewer:

• American Journal of Psychology
• American Journal on Mental Retardation
• American Psychologist
• Animal Behaviour
• Animal Learning and Behavior
• Applied Cognitive Psychology
• Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation
• Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• Behavioral and Neural Biology
• Behavioural Processes
• Bird Behavior
• Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology
• Current Directions in Psychological Science
• Current Psychology of Cognition
• Interamerican Journal of Psychology
• International Journal of Comparative Psychology
• Journal of Comparative Psychology
• Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
• Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
• Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
• Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
• Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
• Learning and Motivation
• Memory and Cognition
• Neuroscience Letters
• Pavlovian Journal of Biological Sciences
• Perception
• Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior
• Psychological Bulletin
• Psychological Reports
• Psychological Review
• Psychological Science
• Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
• Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Science

Member:

• Psychobiology and Behavior Research Review Committee, National Institute of Mental Health (1991-1994)
• Psychobiology, Behavior, and Neuroscience Research Review Committee, National Institute of Mental Health (1994-1995)
• Basic Behavioral Science Research Subcommittee D, National Institute on Drug Abuse (1998) Reviewers Reserve, National Institutes of Health (1995-1999)
• Committee on Animal Research and Ethics, American Psychological Association (1996-1998; Chair, 1998)
• Fellow Committee of Division 3, American Psychological Association (1997-2000; Chair 1998-1999)
• Behavioral and Social Sciences Review Integration Panels I and II, National Institutes of Health (1998)

Distinguished Visiting Professor:

• National Science Foundation conference on neurobiology techniques, cognition, and computer simulation, Colorado State University, 1990

Invited Participant:

• Science Advocacy Training Conference, American Psychological Association, 1995

Grant Reviewer:

• Austrian Science Foundation
• Iowa Science Foundation
• Leverhulme Trust
• Montanans on a New Trac for Science
• National Institute of Mental Health
• National Research Council of Canada
• National Science Foundation
• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• PSC-CUNY Research Award Program
• Wellcome Trust

Textbook Reviewer:

• Addison Wesley Longman
• Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
• Harper-Collins
• Holt, Rinehart, Winston
• Prentice-Hall
• Random House
• John Wiley & Sons

External Ph.D. Dissertation Examiner:

• Peter W. D. Dodd, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1978
• R. T. Pithers, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 1981

External Honors Examiner:

• Helen Gruetzmacher, Knox College, Victor Miller; 1985
• David Hordiner, Jordi Kleiner, David Seligman; Swarthmore College, 1995

Professional Organizations:

• American Psychological Association (Fellow of Divisions 1, 3, 6, and 25; Division 3 Member-at-Large, 2000-2003; Division 6 President, 2003-2004)
• American Psychological Society (Charter Fellow)
• Cognitive Science Society
• Comparative Cognition Society (President, 2000-2001)
• Midwestern Psychological Association (Program Committee, 2002-2004)
• Phi Beta Kappa
• Psi Chi
• Psychonomic Society (Governing Board, 1999-2004)
• Sigma Xi

Steering Committee:

• International Conference on Comparative Cognition (1993- )

Honors Theses Supervised:

• Craig Waters. Autoshaped nose-poking in rats. 1973.
• Jane Deitchler. Trial grouping effects on second-order autoshaping of the chick’s key peck. 1979.
• Mark Larew. Discrimination and retention of stimulus order by pigeons. 1979.
• Kent Cox. The acquisition of two-peck sequences under discriminative control in pigeons. 1980.
• David Slack. Measuring bursts and pauses in the pigeon’s pecking response on variable interval schedules. 1981.
• Lucretia Hughes. Effects of diazepam on pigeon discrimination learning. 1982 (with Hinrichs).
• Roxanne Schlapkohl. Persistence of responding on an increasing ratio schedule contrasted with different fixed ratio schedules. 1983.
• Kevin Gregg. Observing behavior by humans. 1983.
• Steven Baldwin. Testing the trace theory of animal short-term memory. 1984.
• Diane Franson. Effects of unsignaled changes in response-outcome contingency on human operant behavior. 1985.
• DeAnn Lobmeyer. Preliminaries to foul shooting: Superstitious behavior? 1985.
• John Becker. Human judgments of response-outcome contingency with two active responses. 1986.
• William Reynolds. Categorization of familiar and novel pictorial stimuli by pigeons. 1987.
• John Wallace. Increased punishment responses under counterproductive contingencies. 1987.
• William Sauer. Is there an oddity preference in infants? 1988. (with Quinn).
• Lynne Sebille. The role of good continuation in the perceptual organization of human infants. 1988 (with Quinn).
• David Marchant. Instance-to-category generalization as a critical test of equivalence set formation in pigeons. 1988.
• William Dorner. The influence of preconceptions on judging interevent contingencies. 1988.
• Betsy Carlson. The effects of contour deletion on the discrimination of line drawings by pigeons. 1990.
• Russ Christian. Discrimination of mirror images by pigeons. 1991.
• Sonya Ulrich. Discrimination and generalization along the temporal dimension using the peak procedure in pigeons. 1993.
• Cathy Betti. Temporal discrimination and the peak procedure. 1994.
• Brigette Cook. Stimulus generalization of depth-rotated drawings. 1994.
• Stuart Miller. Temporal control under the peak procedure. 1995.
• Heather Kingery. Depth invariance in pigeon perception. 1997.

Students Supervised in the Graduate College's Research Opportunities Programs:

• Kimberly Knauss. Categorization of trial-unique stimuli in pigeons. Summer, 1986.
• Felicia Hall. Human and animal cognition. Summer, 1994.
• Michelle Marion. Pigeons’ recognition of complex object drawings. Summer, 1995.
• Grace Muhammad. Pigeons’ recognition of differently sized drawings of objects. Summer, 1995.
• Rhonda Dalrymple. Successive same-different discrimination learning. Summer, 1996.
• Kelvin Garner. Simultaneous same-different discrimination learning. Summer, 1996.
• Rhonda Dalrymple. Successive same-different discrimination learning. Summer, 1997.
• Tamara Barclay. Visual recognition of depth-rotated objects. Summer, 1997.
• Neil Torbert. Visual memory in pigeons and people. Summer, 1999.
• Farrasha Jones. Positive and negative patterning in college students. Summer, 1999.
• Grisselle Betancourt. Same-different discrimination learning by pigeons. Summer, 1999.
• Denise Alexander. Object-based attention in pigeons. Summer, 2003.

Students supervised in the Undergraduate Scholars Assistantship Program:

• Jane Auh. Causal perception. (Fall, 1986-Spring, 1987)
• Andrew Baker. Fetal alcohol and learning. (Fall, 1987-Spring, 1988; with J. R. West)
• William Dorner. Contingency perception. (Fall, 1987-Fall, 1988)
• Leandro Torres. Fetal alcohol and learning. (Fall, 1989-Spring, 1990; with J. R. West)
• Brad Tucker. Visual perception in pigeons. (Fall, 1990-Spring, 1991)
• Janelle Johnson. Causal perception. (Fall, 1995-Fall, 1998)
• B. J. Terrones. Visual perception in pigeons. (Fall, 1995-Spring, 1999)
• Brigette Robinson. Visual perception in pigeons. (Fall, 1995-Spring, 1995)
• Nicole Hill. Learning and perception in college students. (Fall, 1996-Spring, 1998)
• Raquel Unser. Learning and perception in college students. (Fall, 1999-)

Students supervised from other Graduate Institutions:

• Leyre Castro, University of Deusto, Spain (2001)

M.A. Theses Supervised:

• Brian Y. Cooper. Interpolation of the UCS in a one trial per day procedure. 1976 (with Grisham).
• James D. Deich. The acquisition and maintenance of observing responses in pigeons. 1977.
• Keith R. Nelson. Successive matching-to-sample in the pigeon: Proactive and retroactive effects on associative memory. 1978.
• Frederick F. Taylor. The effect of the CS-US interval and the percentage of reinforced trials upon the autoshaped key peck response in pigeons. 1979.
• Danny J. Neunaber. Judgment of contingency and operant responding in depressed and nondepressed college students. 1983 (with O’Hara).
• Gary W. Schroeder. Collateral and operant performance of depressed and nondepressed college students on DRL schedules of reinforcement. 1983 (with O’Hara).
• Veronika T. Guttenberger. Effects of sample duration, retention interval, and time in the test on pigeons’ matching-to-sample performance. 1983.
• Ramesh S. Bhatt. Choice behavior of pigeons on progressive and multiple schedules: A test of optimal foraging theory. 1986
• Shu-Fang Kao. Contingency judgment: The nature of the noncontingency relation and a reexamination of strategy analysis. 1990.
• Carol L. DeVolder. Strategic shift in the prospective and retrospective processing of visual forms. 1990.
• Linda J. Van Hamme. Recognition by components: A comparative analysis of object recognition. 1991.
• Jennifer D. Thomas. Long-term behavioral effects of alcohol exposure during the brain growth spurt in rats: A dose-response study. 1992.
• Joseph L. Gagliardi. Pigeons’ perception of stimuli rotated in depth. 1994.

Ph.D. Theses Supervised:

• James D. Deich. Analysis of first- and second-order autoshaping of the chick’s keypeck with heat as the unconditioned reinforcer. 1982.
• Lynn Holmes. An experimental analysis of habitat selection in Tegenaria domestica (Araneida: Agelenidae). 1982 (with Bovbjerg).
• Keith R. Nelson. A signal detection analysis of successive matching performance in pigeons. 1983.
• Robert E. DeLong. Control of responding by stimulus duration. 1983.
• Danny J. Neunaber. Behavioral and judgmental sensitivity to changes in response-outcome contingencies in depressed and non-depressed individuals. 1986 (with O’Hara).
• Diane L. Chatlosh. Discriminative control by three dimensions of compound stimuli in pigeons: Is the blocking effect confined to redundant relevant cues? 1988. [Winner of the 1986 Don Lewis Dissertation Year Award.]
• Ramesh S. Bhatt. Effects of category size, congruity of training categories with human language categories, and selective attention on multiple-category classification in pigeons. 1988. [Winner of the 1987 Don Lewis Dissertation Year Award.]
• Susan M. Elek. Response to and report of response-outcome contingencies: A developmental study. 1990.
• Shu-Fang Kao. Information integration and associative learning as accounts of contingency judgment. 1993. [Winner of the 1993 Don Lewis Dissertation Year Award.]
• Carol L. DeVolder. Retrospective and prospective memory processes depend on differently distributed neural systems. 1993 (with Tranel).
• Linda J. Van Hamme. Associative and statistical accounts of cue competition in causality judgments. 1994. [Winner of the 1994 Don Lewis Dissertation Year Award and winner of the Outstanding Dissertation Award on Basic Learning Processes from Division 25 of the American Psychological Association.]
• Kimberly K. Kirkpatrick-Steger. The role of object components and their spatial organization in the pigeon’s visual recognition of complex line drawings. 1995. [Co-winner of the 1994 K. W. Spence Award and winner of the 1995 Don Lewis Dissertation Year Award. 1997 winner of the Young Investigator Award for papers published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes from Division 3 of the American Psychological Association. Co-winner of the 1999 Outstanding Dissertation Award on Basic Learning Processes from Division 25 of the American Psychological Association.]
• Jennifer D. Thomas. Behavioral and neuroanatomical effects of brief episodes of alcohol exposure during the brain growth spurt in rats: The importance of time of exposure. 1995. [Co-winner of the 1994 K. W. Spence Award.]
• Jessie J. Peissig. A study of object representation in the pigeon. 2001.

Postdoctoral Supervision:

• Dr. G. A. Lucas (1977-1980)
• Dr. R. A. Hancock (1979)
• Dr. M. W. Olson (1980-1982)
• Dr. M. Katagiri (1993)
• Dr. S. L. Astley (1990-1998)
• Dr. M. E. Young (1995-2000). [Received honorable mentions by Divisions 3 (Experimental Psychology) and 6 (Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology) of the American Psychological Association for two papers published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes.]
• Dr. O. F. Lazareva (2001-)
• Dr. B. M. Gibson (2001-2003)
• Dr. L. Castro (2004)

Other Research Supervision:

• Steven Schectman (URP; 1973)
• Julie Backstrom (SSTP, 1973)
• Karen Thompson (SSTP, 1973)
• Karen Gutowski (SSTP, 1974)
• Linda Nagamatsu (SSTP, 1975)
• Steven Cohen (SSTP, 1977)
• Sarah Scher (SSTP, 1978)
• Virginia Whitney (SSTP, 1979)
• Steven Manock (SSTP, 1979)
• Maria Moraniec (SSTP, 1980)
• Julie Boland (SSTP, 1981)
• Maribel Valle (SSTP, 1981)
• Amy Roskin (SSTP, 1982)
• Jacqueline Freedman (SSTP, 1982)
• Sylvia Morgan (SSTP, 1983)
• Helene Fields (SSTP, 1984)
• David Levy (SSTP, 1985)
• Lisa Streisfeld (SSTP, 1985)
• Mark Valera (SSTP, 1986)
• David Shapiro (SSTP, 1987)
• Pic Sayasenh (SSTP, 1988)
• Tracey Carter (SSTP, 1989)
• Cybill Sigler (SSTP, 1990)
• Kelley Burgess (SSTP, 1991)
• Jennifer Chan (SSTP, 1991)
• Jerry Lin (SSTP, 1992)
• Steven Shin (SSTP, 1992)
• Adam Simon (City High School, 1992-93)
• Cristina Garcia (SSTP, 1994)
• Raylesha Burton (SSTP, 1995)
• Shareena Mundodi (SSTP, 1995)
• Rebecca Schiff (SSTP, 1996)
• Chinazor Okasi (SSTP, 1997)
• Sana Hong (SSTP, 1998)
• Lauren Feigenbaum (SSTP, 1999)
• Beki Cohen (SSTP, 2000)
• Ilana Jerud (SSTP, 2001)
• Nicole Ambrosio (SSTP, 2002)
• Jonathan Levin (SSTP, 2002)
• Jennifer Zhao (SSTP, 2003)

Honors Committee Service:

• M. Gaffey (Bechtoldt, 1974); E. Walker (Grisham, 1975); T. Mueller (Blumberg, 1995);

M.A. and Research Advisory Committee Service:

C. Kelley (Knutson, 1972); R. Swenson (Randall, 1974): J. Elbin (Randall, 1974); K. Simansky (Harvey, 1975); C. Gibbs (Gormezano, 1976); E. Shrager (Johnson, 1976); K. Wahlstrand (Knutson, 1977); DeLong (Grisham, 1978); M. Bensenberg (Gormezano, 1979); E. Anderson (Knutson, Routh, 1980); R. Viken (Knutson, 1981); D. Recher (Hegmann, 1981-Zoology); C. Gundaker (Hegmann, 1981-Zoology); L. Ohman (Johnson, 1982); L. Winsky (Harvey, 1983); T. Cunningham (Randall, 1984); S. Aicher (Randich, 1987); A. Nowak (Gormezano, 1988); D. Meyerson (Knutson, 1988); K. Kirkpatrick-Steger (Gormezano, 1992); M. Cicha (Johnson, 1993); M. Henry (Johnson, 1993); Ed Vogel (Luck); Greta Sokoloff (Blumberg); Dan Nicholson (Freeman);

Ph.D. Committee Service:

C. Poulos (Gormezano, 1974); R. Tait (Gormezano, 1974); M. Trulson (Randall, 1974); E. J. Kehoe (Gormezano, 1976); J. Sorenson (Harvey, 1976); N. Kane (Knutson, 1977); F. Gersh (Weerts, 1978); B. Cooper (Randall, 1978); K. Simansky (Harvey, 1979); E. Edmon (Grisham, 1978); Lucki (Grisham & Harvey, 1979); C. Gibbs (Gormezano, 1978); E. Shrager (Johnson, 1981); F. Gordon (Johnson, 1979); C. Hutz (Cantor, 1980-Ed. Psych. Comps.); K. Perkins (Fowles, 1981); R. Jones (Amada, 1981-Music); W. Lind (Johnson, 1981); D. Tranel (Fowles, 1982); R. Viken (Knutson & Johnson, 1982); B. Schreurs (Gormezano, 1983); L. Ohman (Johnson, 1984); L. Winsky (Harvey, 1984); C. Norton (Hegmann, 1985-Zoology); R. Johnson (Randall, 1985); D. Pierce (West, 1985-Anatomy); C. Kao (Baron, 1986); T. Cunningham (Johnson, 1988); S. Aicher (Randich, 1988); A. Nowak (Gormezano, 1990); B. Hallowell (Hurtig, 1991-Speech Pathology and Audiology); D. Meyerson (Knutson, 1992); Dean Yoshizum (Levin, 2000)

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